Contents
Part I General Perspectives
Bingo! Promising Developments in Argumentation Theory . . . . . . . . . 3
Frans H. van Eemeren
What Is Informal Logic? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
J. Anthony Blair
Towards a Foundation for Argumentation Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
G.C. Goddu
The Agentive Approach to Argumentation: A Proposal. . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Douglas Niño and Danny Marrero
Part II Analysis of Argumentation
Conductive Argumentation, Degrees of Confidence,
and the Communication of Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Sharon Bailin and Mark Battersby
The Linked-Convergent Distinction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
David Hitchcock
Identifying the Warrant of an Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
James B. Freeman
Where Is Visual Argument?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Jens E. Kjeldsen

Part III Evaluation of Argumentation
Missed Opportunities in Argument Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Daniel H. Cohen
Ubiquity, Ambiguity, and Metarationality: Searching
for the Fallacy of Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Don’t Feed the Trolls: Straw Men and Iron Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Scott Aikin and John Casey
Story Credibility in Narrative Arguments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Paula Olmos
Part IV Argument Schemes
Arguments by Analogy (and What We Can Learn about
Them from Aristotle). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Manfred Kraus
A Means-End Classification of Argumentation Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Fabrizio Macagno
Part V Contextual Embedding of Argumentation
Argumentative Norms: How Contextual Can They Be?
A Cautionary Tale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Harvey Siegel
Reasonableness in Context: Taking into Account
Institutional Conventions in the Pragma-Dialectical Evaluation
of Argumentative Discourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
A.F. Snoeck Henkemans and J.H.M. Wagemans
Deference, Distrust, and Delegation: Three Design Hypotheses. . . . . . . 227
Sally Jackson

Part VI Linguistic Approaches to Argumentation
A Plea for a Linguistic Distinction Between Explanation
and Argument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Thierry Herman
Verbs of Appearance and Argument Schemes: Italian Sembrare
as an Argumentative Indicator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Johanna Miecznikowski and Elena Musi
Linguistic Argumentation as a Shortcut for the Empirical
Study of Argumentative Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Pierre-Yves Raccah